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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 10
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Destruction of Assyria is a type of destruction of the wicked at the Second Coming—Few people shall be left after the Lord comes again—Remnant of Jacob shall return in that day—Compare <a href="2_ne/20">2 Nephi 20</a>.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 20: 1 (1-34)."><span class='smallcaps'>Woe</span></a> unto them that decree <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Injustice.">unrighteous</a> decrees, and that write grievousness <i>which</i> they have prescribed;
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To turn aside the needy from <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/2a" mark="a" type="F" title="OR justice; TG Judgment.">judgment</a>, and to take away the right from the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 4: 16 (16-18); D&C 38: 16.">poor</a> of my people, that widows may be their prey, and <i>that</i> they may rob the fatherless!
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And what will ye do in the day of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/3a" mark="a" type="E" title="IE punishment; Hosea 9: 7; Luke 19: 44.">visitation</a>, and in the desolation <i>which</i> shall come from far?  to whom will ye flee for help?  and where will ye leave your glory?
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Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain.  For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand <i>is</i> stretched out still.
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&#182; O <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/5a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR Assyria is the rod of my anger, and my wrath is a staff in their hand; Ezek. 31: 3.">Assyrian</a>, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
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I will send him against an <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hypocrisy.">hypocritical</a> nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
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Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/7a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB did his heart intend it thus.">doth</a> his heart think so; but <i>it is</i> in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
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For he saith, <i>Are</i> not my princes altogether kings?
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<i>Is</i> not Calno as Carchemish?  <i>is</i> not Hamath as Arpad?  <i>is</i> not Samaria as Damascus?
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As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
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Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
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Wherefore it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 19: 35 (35-37).">punish</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/12b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE the proud boasting.">the</a> fruit of the stout heart of the king of <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/10/12c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 8: 7.">Assyria</a>, and the glory of his high looks.
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For he saith, By the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 19: 23.">strength</a> of my hand I have done <i>it,</i> and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant <i>man:</i>
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And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs <i>that are</i> left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="All the metaphors in this verse ask the same question: Can man (e.g. the Assyrian king) prosper against God?.">Shall</a> the axe <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Boasting.">boast</a> itself against him that heweth therewith?  <i>or</i> shall the saw magnify itself against him that <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/10/15c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB wields, moves.">shaketh</a> it?  as if the rod should shake <i>itself</i> against them that lift it up, <i>or</i> as if the staff should lift up <i>itself, as if it were</i> no wood.
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Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 34: 16; 2 Ne. 15: 17.">fat</a> ones leanness; and under <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/16b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE of the king of Assyria (also v. 17, 18, 19).">his</a> glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
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And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 9: 18.">thorns</a> and his briers in one day;
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And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Assyria will vanish completely.">soul</a> and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
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And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
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&#182; And it shall come to pass in <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/20a" mark="a" type="D" title="This prophecy extends to the latter days in the succeeding verse.">that</a> day, <i>that</i> the remnant of Israel, and such as are <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 4: 2.">escaped</a> of the house of Jacob, shall no more again <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/10/20c" mark="c" type="E" title="OR lean, rely upon; 2 Kgs. 16: 7.">stay</a> upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Remnant of.">remnant</a> shall <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Chr. 30: 6 (1-7); 1 Ne. 10: 3.">return</a>, <i>even</i> the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
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For though thy people Israel be as the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 9: 27 (27-28).">sand</a> of the sea, <i>yet</i> a remnant of them shall <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Gathering of.">return</a>: the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/10/22c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG World, End of.">consumption</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/10/22d" mark="d" type="A" title="Matt. 24: 34; D&C 1: 7.">decreed</a> shall <sup>e</sup><a href="isa/10/22e" mark="e" type="D" title="IE Even when punishment comes, mercy is available.">overflow</a> with righteousness.
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For the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> of hosts shall <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/23a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE cause the decreed destruction.">make</a> a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
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&#182; Therefore thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 30: 31.">smite</a> thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/24b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE as the Egyptians did in earlier times.">Egypt</a>.
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For yet a very little <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 54: 7.">while</a>, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/25b" mark="b" type="A" title="Dan. 11: 36; 2 Ne. 20: 25.">indignation</a> shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 9: 4.">Midian</a> at the rock of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/26b" mark="b" type="A" title="Judg. 7: 25 (19-25).">Oreb</a>: and <i>as</i> his <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/10/26c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 14: 26 (26-27).">rod</a> <i>was</i> upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of <sup>d</sup><a href="isa/10/26d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ex. 14: 27 (16-27).">Egypt</a>.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>that</i> his <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 9: 4 (3-4).">burden</a> shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/27b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Bondage, Physical.">yoke</a> shall be destroyed because of the <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/10/27c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Messiah.">anointing</a>.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/28a" mark="a" type="D" title="Progress of the Assyrian armies toward Jerusalem is traced; then (v. 33-34) the LORD’S action against them is figuratively described.">He</a> is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
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They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
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Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
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Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
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As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand <i>against</i> the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
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Behold, the Lord, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, shall lop the bough with <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/33a" mark="a" type="D" title="See Isa. 36, 37 or 2 Kgs. 18: 13—19: 37 for a fulfillment of this prophecy.">terror</a>: and the high ones of stature <i>shall be</i> hewn down, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/33b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Haughtiness.">haughty</a> shall be humbled.
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And he shall cut down the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/10/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 9: 18.">thickets</a> of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/10/34b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 37: 36.">by</a> a mighty one.
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